Entrants

1. Amarillion
website
from: Wageningen, the Netherlands

TINS Organizer. I'm an unemployed molecular biologist and do a lot of game programming in my spare time. I have participated in several Speedhacks.

2. Sander
speedhack 2003 entry
from: Horst, the Netherlands

I'm a student Information Technology. I've lots of spare time to do programming but also my study includes programming. I joined the last Speedhack and that was simply great! That's why I join the TINS Hack too.

3. Tareco
from: Portugal

4. Louis
from: California, USA

I still can't believe this guy lives about 20 minutes from where I spend the last 8 months :-)

5. Inphernic
from: Raahe, Finland

When asked about himself, all he wanted to say was "Quack". I still don't know if this is a statement about his methaphysical self, or if it is just sheer lazyness.

6. Ñuño Martínez
from: Burgos, Spain

I'm not sure if I'll have that week-end disponible, but I'll try. I want to test some new code I'm writting, just as I did with SpeedHack2003, and I hope I'll finnish my entry this time. ;^)

7. Jorge
from: Mexico

I'm a computer engineering student, who loves these competitions :-)

8. H
from: Opphem, Sweden
website

9. NotMe
from: Zoetermeer, The Netherlands

I'm an mechanical engineering student at TU Delft. I participated in about 3 Speedhacks now, never finished a game because I always try to code games that are too complex (But this time I will, really !!).

10. Lambik
from: Wageningen, The Netherlands

This time I'm going to finish my entry, for real :)

11. Tobi
from: Zoetermeer, The Netherlands
website

I'm a student mechanical engineering at the TU Delft, I like programming and I really like programming compos...

12. stainlessKnight
website

13. Dan McKinnon
from: BC, Canada

A video game hacker of 11 years, dating all the way back to the days that QBasic was the rage. Winner of the Allegro Font Hack (Jetpack Joe http://stikmansoftware.tripod.com/) I live for these competitions

14. Andrei Ellman (AE)
from: York, UK (currently living in Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Personal web-page
Software web-page
Chickens web-page

I am an out-of-work games programmer. I quit my job in the computer games industry so I'd have the time to write my own game - go figure.

15. Joel Davis
from: Berkely, California, USA
website

I have participated in speedhack2003 and several LudumDare 48 hour contests.

16. Mankeli
from: Finland

Let's see if I can really do something

17. Will
from: England
website

i'm 29, on the dole in England, trying to learn about game programming. i'm half french (donque je parle francais aussi q'englais mais pas aussi bien)

18. Dusty

I'm fairly new to allegro and C++ but i think it would be great fun to see what i can do. I'm 15 years old and a softmore in high school.

19. Retro083
From: Hannibal, Missouri, USA

I've never entered one of these competitions and havent coded anything in a good 3 years, but i want to give it a shot

20. Martin
From: Gothenburg, Sweden

I'm 26 years old. Programming skills.. None? Well, Im the typical poke-around-here-and-there guy, that just knows the basics in PHP, ASP, C/C++ and VB. Can write simpler (very simple) programs from scratch, but can cut and paste my way through a bigger project =)

So, why do I enter? Because I love games and it's time to learn a language thoroughly and after poking around in Allegro I figured I'd give it a try... My goal with this contest is to Win! Nah, to learn first of all, although, collecting 1 point from the judge would no be bad =)

21. Matthew
Website

I've only participated in one contest like this before (a ludum dare one) but had a great time. I wish these things happened more often. Its amazing to see what you can force yourself to do when there's a deadline. Thanks for running this competition, I'm sure it will be a ton of fun.

22. Giddy
From: Denmark

I like to think of myself as a hobby-game-developer, this weekend I will find out if it is real or just my imagination. I have no prior experience with Allegro - so I guess I will have to start learning.

23. carrus85
From: Utah, USA

Well, I have never programmed a game before, but I might as well enter to attempt to. It should be a good learning experience :D.

24. DanielH
Website
From: Arizona, USA

25. jvff
From: Brazil

Just a kid that like to program games just to play them after :-)

26. Dan Yan
From: USA

27. Elias
From: Germany

I'm an old speedhack veteran, taking part in many Allegro speedhacks, and even in a Ludumdare and an RPGDX speedhack. Lately, I usually seem to run out of time because there's other things to do besides speedhacking. But if I can make it in, prepare to have some hard competition! :)

28. Mark
From: Oxford, England

I'm 28, a web programmer from Oxford, England, and my problem is I never finish anything. I entered one speedhack before, the Allegro Speedhack 2003, but unfortunately I went away for most of the weekend, therefore submitted an entry in just 12 hours - which broke several rules and therefore didn't win. Although I was the first to submit an entry.

29. papercut
From: portugal

First participation ever in a competition of this sort. Never finished an Allegro game altough i've been "using" it for almost 2 years. Most ppl knowme for asking dumb questions in #allegro ;)

30. parabolicus
From: canada

31. david cullen (dcullen)

I started programming BASIC on a TI/994A in 1983 at age 13, so I've been at this for 20 years. My first game was a 2-D car driving simulation whose major feature was that the cars skidded through turns. I guess you could call that my first attempt at modelling game physics. Now I write games for the video gambling industry. I'm nervous about entering TINS because I'm a really slow programmer. But I'm still going to give it a try.

32. david capello (dcapello)
From: Santa Fe, argentina

Maybe you know me by games like Donkey Bolonkey or SFH, well, if I have enough time, I could make other bloody game :-)

33. BAFSoft
From: NY, USA

33. BAFSoft
From: NY, USA

Bobby (aka ferrisr or BAFSoft) is an allegro game programmer. I have only made one game (Jackpot) and a minimal highscore system (AllHS) before, but i am ready to hack!"

34. Charles

I am Charles Bilyue, developer of SNEeSe, a SNES emulator ( http://www.emuunlim.com/sneese/ ), and contributor to several others.